Chaucer and the Masculinity of Historicism

Author / Editor
Federico, Sylvia.

Title
Chaucer and the Masculinity of Historicism

Published
Medieval Feminist Forum 43.1 (2007): 72-75.

Description
Discusses, on the one hand, psychoanalytic approaches to literature, femininity, and various aspects of Troilus and the narrator of TC; and, on the other hand, historicism, masculinity, and other features of Troilus and the narrator. Points out parallels between the approaches and advocates combining psychoanalytic and historicist approaches in medieval criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde